Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards.

You are your best thing

I'm just trying to look at something without blinking, to see what it is like, or it could have been like, and how that had something to do with the way we live now. Novels are always inquiries for me.

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.